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I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing

I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Children
Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
God Love, Renunciation, Highest
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

No freedom without renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
Renunciation

Renunciation is of the mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Renunciation

There is no end to renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
Ends, Renunciation
Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.147, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

Swami Vivekananda
Sweet, Sacrifice, Luxury
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Midst, Torn
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.478, Manonmani Publishers

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Duty
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Clothes, Wife
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama

God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Passion, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

This world is not for cowards.

Swami Vivekananda
Coward, World, Cowardice
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Swami Vivekananda
Hero, Heaven, Earth
Source: tamilandvedas.com

This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Real, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Effects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Philosophy, Real
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Men, Doors

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Swami Vivekananda
Attachment, Compulsion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

Swami Vivekananda
Worship, Murder, Christ
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Growth, Decay
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.12, New World Library

The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Mean, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda
Weakness, Bondage
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2236, Manonmani Publishers

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Swami Vivekananda
Angel, Men, Heaven
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat "I am Thine, I am Thine", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Cat, Praying
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

All change is in the screen.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Screens
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2247, Manonmani Publishers

Change is always subjective.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Subjective
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

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